GRIEF COACHING
"There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard." - Victoria Alexander
Grief Is A Spiritual Practice
What is a spiritual practice other than a repeated activity or process that enables us to meet and know the deepest parts of ourselves?
To surrender to grief means we feel and express every emotion that comes up, as often as it comes up, and let those emotions be the turn-by-turn directions that lead us to the parts of us that require the most healing.
To heal is to "make peace with what is, to cease struggling against the current experience, and to release any desire that the loss never happened, that they never left, they never died.
To heal, we must surrender to the very thing we have been trying to avoid. We must surrender to the grief. When we do, paradoxically it becomes the only spiritual practice that allows us to heal.
We have all experienced loss in our life. Grief is our complex, multi-layered response to loss. Sometimes the grief can be so intense and overwhelming that if feels as though we cannot function or know what to do next.
While we might think of grief as just an emotional response, but there are also physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, cultural, spiritual and philosophical dimensions.
Grief can be challenging to navigate alone. Know that you are not alone. I am here to help.
What is a spiritual practice other than a repeated activity or process that enables us to meet and know the deepest parts of ourselves?
To surrender to grief means we feel and express every emotion that comes up, as often as it comes up, and let those emotions be the turn-by-turn directions that lead us to the parts of us that require the most healing.
To heal is to "make peace with what is, to cease struggling against the current experience, and to release any desire that the loss never happened, that they never left, they never died.
To heal, we must surrender to the very thing we have been trying to avoid. We must surrender to the grief. When we do, paradoxically it becomes the only spiritual practice that allows us to heal.
We have all experienced loss in our life. Grief is our complex, multi-layered response to loss. Sometimes the grief can be so intense and overwhelming that if feels as though we cannot function or know what to do next.
While we might think of grief as just an emotional response, but there are also physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, cultural, spiritual and philosophical dimensions.
Grief can be challenging to navigate alone. Know that you are not alone. I am here to help.
My Journey To Grief Coaching
In June 2015 my wife of 16 years died from cancer. A few months after that I lost a favorite aunt, also to cancer. The following year it was my grand-father. By 2023 I lost five others who were close to me, including my grand-mother, my father, and one of my childhood best friends.
In spite of my knowledge and experience from years of being a music therapist, a pastor, and my own spiritual practices, I struggled with the immense amount of loss. I initially saw grief as something to overcome rather than embrace; as something outside of me rather than a pathway to the deepest parts of me.
After years of working with therapists, coaches, and energy healers, as well as attending grief support groups, I knew the work to support others on their grief journey was mine to do as well.
In June 2015 my wife of 16 years died from cancer. A few months after that I lost a favorite aunt, also to cancer. The following year it was my grand-father. By 2023 I lost five others who were close to me, including my grand-mother, my father, and one of my childhood best friends.
In spite of my knowledge and experience from years of being a music therapist, a pastor, and my own spiritual practices, I struggled with the immense amount of loss. I initially saw grief as something to overcome rather than embrace; as something outside of me rather than a pathway to the deepest parts of me.
After years of working with therapists, coaches, and energy healers, as well as attending grief support groups, I knew the work to support others on their grief journey was mine to do as well.
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